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| Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, April 25th. Photo: UN |
As part of the International Year for Human Rights, declared by the United Nations, the Conference on Human Rights was held in Teheran, Iran, beginning on April 22nd and continuing to May 13th.
The outcome was the Proclamation of the Conference, in which social and economic rights became central to the issue of Universal Human Rights.
Two decades (after the 1948 Universal Declaration), the situation had been transformed, with the status of economic and social rights a principal fault line between the Western democracies and a much larger, and more assertive, Third World. At the First International Conference on Human Rights, held in April 1968 in Teheran, a rising chorus of Asian, African, and Arab voices urged greater emphasis on economic and social rights, challenging the indivisibility and interdependence that lay at the heart of the 1948 Universal Declaration.
Sources:
Some Rights Are More Equal Than Others: The Third World and the Transformation of Economic and Social Rights, by Roland Burke. Humanity Journal (11 June 2014).
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